I was wondering what everyones 1st thoughts are with Google Chrome?

http://www.google.com/chrome

I have found it to render pages very slow (especially when viewing a page for the 1st time), and to just be sluggish overall. Of coarse its a beta so perfection is not expected, but performance wise I really was hoping for more.

The layout is really slick and simple which is pretty nice, but on the flip side there are no extensions, and the customization options are far and few between as of yet.

What are your thoughts?

I found it to be rather fast. The UI is rather minimal but thats how I like it. And it looks nice with Aero glass

Im sure future versions will be more customizable.

like safari, without the blurry font rendering and is quicker, simpler ui

I think my expectations were too high. Its really quick and clean, but I was expecting more. Hopefully there will be more soon. Like the ability to save my passwords. That is key.

Also, a bookmark browser? To get all 15 of my firefox toolbar bookmarks into Chrome I had to drag and drop each one from the "other bookmarks" menu. Most annoying.

But I do love the way it downloads files. And really love the password remembering. Instead of asking you do you want to remember right away, it waits. In case you put in the wrong password. Once you know it works, you can save. The little touches help!

I just can't seem to get used to it, I'm back to Firefox.

I thought it was quick on my work machine, but it's really dragging it's feet on my new notebook.

Loads pages incredibly fast for me, just as fast as ff 3.1 (with tracemonkey enabled too) the UI is my favorite thing about it, good to look at minimal and even has some sexy animations. It is a bit unfinished though, you can't even middle click to autoscroll for example, no rss and I can't scroll at all with the touch pad on my laptop.

Definitely has potential though, ui is fast and sexy, renders pages fast, and starts up even faster than IE.

It's slow and pretty feature-less. It's not crashing as much as some other beta 2 browsers...

..the not having features is NOT the way to go in my opinion. They left some important stuff out of Android and now this? Seems this whole "clean and simple" concept may be getting out of control.

The slow part I can deal with..it is fast with some sites though; still slow on all the others. Not ready or anywhere close for primetime in my opinion.

The UI is nice, but I also think the UI is nice in IE so this makes no big difference to me.

If Google listens to the feedback, they can build the best browser ever!

1- I like how the UI is made. Very clean specially under Vista. I'm one of those who hate the menu bar. Replacing it with a button for options is a great thing. I'm one of those who can be put-off a program if it doesn't look good.
2- The thing is fast. Faster than any browser I've tried. It also renders ajax smoothly just like Safari. Something Firefox can't do right.
3- It's the first browser to support the scroll-wheel I have in my keyboard.
4- I love having a Task Manager inside the browser.
5- The Mozilla Prism like feature comes in handy for some websites.

Give it some time and it'll be damn good.

Wish they'd add plugins, or perhaps some sort of browser-sync feature. I'm guessing Ad-block and the like won't ever happen on Chrome though...

Very fast rendering. Simple yet effective UI. Low resource usage.
Missing plug-ins, rss support.
So for th time being, back to Firefox.

Keep up the great work Google.

Cant use or install the google toolbar which is odd considering it's google.

Very nice, they mean what they say by minimal, but in time i could see this becoming a very good browser.

I tried it for about an hour. I was not really that impressed with it. It is only a Beta though so I will give it another try when it goes Gold. I don't like the fact that there is no ad blocking capabilities. The incognito feature was cool.

Well in a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is awesome and 1 the worst I will put a 3 to this browser because even if it fast surfing the web it does not have any interesting features that we see in browsers like firefox, safari or ie7/8

i love it is very damn fast Also did you anyone check out the built in Task manager witch is very handy so each Tab is treated as its own Process . the UI is very sleek and clean

I tried it, didn't much care for it, and uninstalled it. And then the not fun started.

First why I didn't like it:
1) Used huge amounts of RAM for rendering complex pages.
2) The interface looks like a cartoon and reminds me too much of the Luna Visual Style.
3) I cannot configure the fonts to prefer my Sans Serif choice over the Serif.
4) Installed and set to run at start up an updater program that did not get uninstalled when I uninstalled Chrome. Similar to the Apple Updater in effect.
5) I made the foolish mistake of allowing Chrome to make itself the default browser. It would not release the file associations for urls or html back to Safari, or give them to IE7.

After uninstalling:
1) I had to do a system restore to restore my original file associations for urls and html, because it wiped out the associations for urls, html, shtml, xml, etc when it uninstalled.

So, I will not be using Google Chrome. I despise programs that will take file associations (which yes I allowed) but then will not restore them if I ask it.

You are aware that this is Beta software right? and are Aware what Beta is . i assume you think Beta means Beta luck next time.


now as for the high Ram usage it is Beta also if you add alot of the task up in the task manger for chromes task manger it well for me would equal what Safri or FF3 uses somtimes

I'm loving it It's fast and straight to the point (i.e. simple) which is what you want from a browser (well I do anyway) and has potential to take over from Firefox as my main browser (I'll still keep Firefox though, just demote it's role ) I'm looking forward to Google's future progress with this browser

I'm really suprised in what I think of this browser as I usually despise most Google products, because of thier horrible design, but this really isn't very bad at all.

The design of Google Chrome really looks nice on Windows Vista & I love how they have combined it with the Aero glass - they have done this in a unique way, rather than having all the top part covered in glass. I also like the way they have put the Google logo within the glass.

The way new tabs appear, disappear is also very good - I like little effects like that

I like some of the ideas they have taken from Mozilla Firefox 3 (e.g. the password remembering feature which waits till the page has loaded & the favourite star in the address bar to save favourites quickly.

The best part of all is the font rendering, it looks similar to Safari's, however, I have to say, I prefer Safari's font rendering above any browser, even this beta of Google Chrome.

Google Chrome has a long way to go, however, this beta release looks very promising. I will be staying with Mozilla Firefox 3 at the moment, however, because I love the way I have customised it with the Glasser extension & various Stylish styles. Also, some of the extensions I use are vital to my browsing experience.

Given time & maybe with the final release of Google Chrome (if I am able to customise the UI & add extensions), I may well be swayed into changing browser


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I don't think the font rendering looks like Safari's. It's basically the Windows font rendering.

I with they'd offer a feature that lets you choose Safari's font rendering.

LOVING it so far. I mean sure I don't have my stylish extensions or my glasser, but browser looks great out of the box, runs BLAZING fast, and I love the simple little touches..

Google has made sure to pay attention to some of the little details, without giving to much... I am going to continue using it over FF for a while and see how it improves, etc.

Honestly if we could skin it and add extensions like ad-block, gmail notifiers, etc.. I think this could be the #1 browser out there.

I like the UI on Vista - very clean. Renders pages very fast. Love the tab management. I personally am not going to use it, because it's missing some features I like on the more mature browsers, but I will recommend this to friends who are on a dinosaur of a PC (512 Mb of Ram, PIII, etc.). They only use it for basic stuff, and this browser will run a lot quicker than the other browsers on their PCs

I have only two words: EPIC WIN!

Maybe this a good opportunity for Google to integrate their applications, like GMail, Google Maps etc..

I would like to see:

- An activity window similar to that in Safari
- Some add-ons just like Firefox

I am all for stability, but individual processes seem to occupy a heck lot of space: 80 MB for 2 tabs!

i hate it. if it doesnt have OS integration its pointless to me. i rather use safari or firefox.

Chrome is sweet! It renders fast, it has a clean UI that looks beautiful in Vista....



I am addicted to the feature documented here.

Well, I installed it on my mothers other half's laptop and he loves it, it runs much faster then Firefox and his laptop is a lowly AMD 2000+ /w 256MB of RAM. And by faster, I mean, Firefox takes almost 22 seconds to load, Chrome opens in about two seconds. NICE.

I just cant wait to see what the Mac version has to offer.

This is how a browser should be.

I find it to render pages quite fast once you have already been to the web page once . it would be pretty killer once it has support for something like extensions for firefox & maybe some skinning support as well.

8/10

Yes, I am aware that it is a Beta, so I did the right thing and told Google why I uninstalled it and what problems I had when I did so. As for your assumption, no. Beta means that user feedback can make the product Better. And I still don't like the fact that the uninstallation of the Beta software called Google Chrome left the Google updater running and still running after a reboot.

Oh, and cut the patronizing attitude, it doesn't help anyone.

Just made a blog post about my impression on Google Chrome.

Ovearll I like it alot. It's fast, stable and considering it's the first beta version, there are a lot of space for improvements!

Thumbs up to Google!

I agree with most of the comments. I compared it with firefox and it does load pages faster, surprised me. You should have seen my workplace today (IT Department), everyone was all excited about a new browser to try out. It's funny to see grown men act like children, or Christmas day just because of a new beta browser release. They only downfall I've seen so far is the security certificate signing. If you click proceed anyways, close the browser, and then revisit a site with https it doesn't remember your previous choice to bypass it. I haven't spent too much time looking, maybe someone knows how to remember security certificate choices?

It uses an old version of WebKit, and the graphics layer has odd bugs (And some features are missing that Safari has supported since v1 or so, which is just strange)


It's a cool feature, good thing lots of other browsers do it.

Overall its Great, have some issues with Facebook tho. but its good, Faster & better

Nice
view-source:http://www.neowin.net/ (Work only Google Chrome)
Very tidy easy to read html code

I'm liking it so far. I've just been using it for about five minutes, but it's been very fast for me and I haven't had a single issue yet. I'll have to continue to use it for a week or so before I decide whether or not to use it as my primary browser, but it's looking good so far.

i've dumped FF3 for Chrome now...

mostly because of the low memory usage and independent tabs.

even tho there is no adblock, i think i can live with it... for now

Here are some SunSpider tests with Firefox 3.1 Build 20080902191608 (27 extensions installed) and it looks like 3.1 /w Jit wins over Chrome
Firefox 3.1 Jit ON (1725.8ms Total)
Firefox 3.1 Jit OFF (3558.8ms Total)
Google Chrome (2192.0ms Total)

On Dromaeo though, Chrome wins by a large margin. From left to right, Firefox Jit OFF (1859.40ms), Firefox Jit ON (1247.80ms), Google Chrome (463.40ms). It makes me wonder if WebKit/Google cheated and optimized just so it destroyed Mozilla's javascript benchmark considering there are a few inconsistencies between the its Sunspider and Dromaeo benchmarks. If everything was equal, Google Chrome should have won all the tests it did in Dromaeo in Sunspider as well, but on some it does and others it doesn't. Maybe it just goes back to SunSpider being affected by rendering speed and Chrome is just really slow in that respect at the moment even though its javascript engine is much faster.

I dont think it will replace FF3 any time for me. Firefox really is an ecosystem of my life online. Yahoo/Gmail notifiers, FTP, adblock, etc. Just cant get those for Chrome....

couple things.

how do i add a home button?

-speed wise i notice a very small difference.

-the ui gives the page more screen space and looks really smooth.

-any web developers on here right click on something and click the "inspect element" button.
so far i find it the greatest feature...i was stunned.

Wrench Icon > Options > Basics Tab > Check "Show Home button on the toolbar"

i was in there looking for it and didnt see it

i just pooped a brick again.

when your in a form there is a small arrow/dots in the bottom right corner, click and drag it....

No offense, but why exactly should we care about your blog?

it usually annoys me when people post blog links, but he actually did a really nice/straight to the point write up.

lot of things i didnt know, saved me from having to look for stuff

It shouldn't be doing that, and neither should Safari (The default value of that CSS rule is "none")

It'll be nice once other browsers start supporting that rule though.

Edit: And the web inspector looks broken.

I am disappointed they would release the web inspector feature so unfinished.

how so?

seems to work for me.

well i read it and found it pretty informative. if you dont care, then just ignore the post rather than making another reply?

Don't want to try it. Don't want any of the Google's craps on my computers. Bad move by Google IMO.
We need a strong and popular brower to unify web standard like either Firefox or IE, not another browser to fuel this stupid browsers' war.

Yeah, who the hell needs competition? Would be best if all Windows user were stuck at IE6.